I saw that Children of Men wasn't #1 and immediately knew the list was illegitimate.
Clearly, Thor is better than both The Godfather and Seven Samurai.
Also, Us is apparently better than Get Out.
Maybe if libs watch Parasite enough times they'll eventually get it.
"What do you mean?? Clearly It's about a hard working rich man defending his home from filthy socialists who want to mooch off his wealth! What's there not to get!?"
The thing with Rotten Tomatoes is that its a binary scoring system. If I give a very mediocre capeshit film 6/10 then that's counted as a "positive". That's exactly why movies like Black Panther make it so high, they have a broadly warm reception, but nobody's saying Black Panther is top 100.
The list linked is ordered by average critic rating + number of reviews, not Tomatometer.
On the basis of political economy itself, in its own words, we have shown that the film critic sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities
I don't think that's how it works. The description of the adjusted score metric doesn't say anything about ascribing scores to reviews like Metacritic does, just that the aggregated scores are weighted by number of reviews.
It's an awful metric because it uses review scores which are subjective and increasingly as Hollywood turns out crap the standards have fallen. So now you have something that by any rights should be a 60% to Seven Samurai's 99 or 100% getting higher than it because the reviewers are tired, apathetic and just don't feel they can give everything a low grade year after year. It's like the MPAA rating system, it's not objective but based on the subjective cultural sensibilities and sensitivities of a tiny group of non-randomized people.
It also doesn't take into account that a great movie from 50 years ago (and generally only great movies or cult classics of some sort are going to be reviewed again decades after the fact, no one in the 2040s is going to be re-reviewing Ted 2 or Transformers 6 or whatever) has gotten a lot more retrospective reviews, including very critical ones from people who dislike it just to dislike it and be snobs and/or people with no taste.
You actually can get sort of accurate ratings from these systems but you have to pretty much exclude content from the last 20-25 years from results. At that point it starts looking a lot more sensible and that tells the whole story about the skew of recent stuff. When you've served reviewers mundane garbage for a couple decades, anything that really stands out and tries, even if it isn't a real masterpiece, gets praised as such.
When you’ve served reviewers mundane garbage for a couple decades, anything that really stands out and tries, even if it isn’t a real masterpiece, gets praised as such.
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Yeah, Knives Out is a top 10 movie all time, this list is definitely legit
Knives Out may be the first movie that I am intentionally not finishing because it is just so awful. Great premise, awful execution. Bad writing, bad dialogue, bad bad bad. Not even Daniel Radcliffe , who is actually a good actor, and Rhys Darby, who is incredible, could save it.I think you are talking about Guns Akimbo, because those two are not in Knives Out. It was actually not bad, pretty enjoyable just not the type of movie that would ever seriously make a “top 10 all time” list.
I'm a little surprised at how biased it is in favour of newer releases, although I guess it makes sense that so many of the high scores are for movies made in an era where studios can be strategic about getting a high Rotten Tomatoes score.
Otherwise, it's not too surprising. There are some I like, and some I don't like, and I'm not expecting the average Rotten Tomatoes critic's taste to perfectly match my own.
Is there a takeaway from this I was supposed to get, other than "be skeptical of Rotten Tomatoes scores", which I was already doing?
This list brought to you by all the people who loved Hamilton.
The fuck, this is aggressively bad lmao
It's like if you asked a 16 year old "film buff".
Fucking The Force Awakens and Last Jedi?! Those are the two weakest start wars movies. No Empire Strikes Back?! The list is pure garbage hard on that alone.
